this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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Can someone buy and donate it to us? :D

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Be the change you want to see in the world.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If money wasn't an issue for me I would do it in an "instant" lul.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do I donate to this cause?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Lol, I love the spirit. However lemmy.org is for sale for 6666,00, so I don't even want to think about how much lemmy.com would cost. If I understand correctly it's owned by GoDaddy atm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Well lmk if you start collecting!

[–] wasney 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Not a bad idea, however I would prefer https://lemmyverse.net/ if so.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If anything, it should be a malaysian .my TLD so it just ends up being lem.my instead, but seeing as the entire point of the Fediverse is that there's no one central authority figure, this whole thing seems silly. 🤣

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Actually, I thought about getting lem.my and make an instance with it (there are ways to rent it even if you don't live in malaysia and it's not too expensive) but tbh I think websitename.com would be the better option because it's the most common format.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but when did 'most common' matter to a social network trying to push a totally different paradigm of federation?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'll likely be spinning up a ".social" instance.

It seems silly to me to name an instance after the engine that makes the car go.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Lmao I wouldn't even be surprised if he already bought it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Or .world! Sounds very general too ;-) You could even setup a general Mastodon server on a .world, betcha it would work!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

whistles so uh, anyone here got $24,000 they don't mind giving up for the Fediverse? :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Is that how much it would cost? How did you find out?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

eh, it would just end up overwhelmed with users like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, and beehaw.org.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

".com" stands for "Commercial". I'd like if that wasn't the goal of any Lemmy instances

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Valid thought, but I doubt anyone really thinks about .com as commercial these days.

For me .com is just "oh that's an international website"